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The organizer of a rally in support of mass deportations on Monday said the rally is about enforcing existing laws, not promoting violence.
LONG POST BUT IMPORTANT, SO FORGIVE ME
I've been meaning to make this post for awhile, but I've been so demoralized just thinking about it so I kept putting it off.
This Saturday, August 1st, Greg. Fucking. Bovino. of overseeing Minneapolis immigration murders and shitty nazi cosplay fame, is coming to Fishers, IN- MY CITY. He's going to be a keynote speaker at Save Heritage Indiana's "Mass Deportation Rally" (Along with Micah Beckwith, our Lt Gov and pedophile-befriending pastor.)
"The event begins at 7 p.m. on Aug. 1. Poynter said for security reasons, attendees will not learn the exact location until shortly beforehand," and I have heard (unverified) that they've actually been struggling to find a venue to host them. These sensitive manbaby fucks KNOW what they're doing is unpopular. (*Additional note- apparently seats are invite-only and $50 a head, OR you can pay $500 to have dinner with Bovino. 🙃)
THAT BEING SAID- several local groups, including local Indivisible groups, Food Not Bombs, Indy Resistance, Somos Latinos, and several more are hosting a HOOSIER HOSPITALITY MARCH.
The point is to bring people together in support of our immigrant neighbors and show strength in numbers. It's from 3-6pm on the same day (this Saturday.) The route takes the march by the Al Huda Mosque where people are encouraged to bring non-perishables for their food pantry, and ends in a vigil for those taken and murdered by ICE and DHS.
I REALLY want people to attend.
I plan on showing up with my D&D group and some wagons filled with whistle kits, gatorade, and snacks to make sure people stay hydrated.
If you live within, like, a 2 hour drive of central Indiana, PLEASE consider bringing some friends and attending. I so badly want the march to overwhelm my city.
If you can't attend but want to help or contribute in some way, feel free to donate via my ko-fi. I will be using donations to fund snacks, waterbottles, first aid kits, etc. to bring to the march. Anything in addition will be donated to the mosque!
ICE is opening an office about 15 minutes away from me. Since learning about it, this image has been lurking in my mind and I had to get it
The image above is PWYW, so you can donate through there and get a high res of this image to do with as you please in exchange!
Anyway, thanks for listening. Please consider spreading the word.
hating racists is good ! but if youre only hating the oppressor and not uplifting the oppressed all you are doing is using a performative method to direct your anger at. being angry is good, but its not enough. you have to love too. uplift the ones that should be uplifted. celebrate black art and culture and people. celebrate blackness for the beauty it is
She was Hollywood's biggest star — and they made her erase herself to get there.
Her real name was Margarita Carmen Cansino. Her father was a Spanish flamenco dancer from Seville. As a teenager, she couldn't legally perform in California bars and nightclubs — so she crossed the border and danced in Tijuana. That's where she fell in love with Mexican culture. That's where she learned to see Mexican people as her own.
Hollywood spotted her talent — and then went to work erasing her roots. They changed her name to "Rita Hayworth." They put her through painful electrolysis to alter her "too ethnic" hairline. They dyed her dark hair auburn red. They told her to stop being Latina and start being "All-American."
She became one of the most glamorous women on earth. And she never forgot where she came from.
In 1942, 17 Mexican American teenagers were wrongfully convicted of murder in the Sleepy Lagoon trial — railroaded by an all-white jury, in a courtroom where their zoot suits were used as "evidence" of guilt. It was the largest mass trial in California history.
Rita Hayworth, at the peak of her fame, put her name and her money on the line. She became one of the most generous backers of the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee — alongside Orson Welles and Anthony Quinn — raising funds to appeal the wrongful convictions. She publicly condemned the Zoot Suit Riots. She used her massive Hollywood platform to denounce the anti-Mexican hysteria sweeping Los Angeles.
She even gave a defendant's family member one of her own dresses to wear to a formal event — because that's who she was.
The appeal won. The boys were released.
Hollywood tried to make her forget she was Margarita Cansino.
it’s always a think piece about “why aren’t young people drinking” “why aren’t young people traveling” “why aren’t young people buying houses” “why aren’t young people optimistic for the future” w these elaborate hypothetical reasons
meanwhile the actual answer never changes: we broke, babes (and we live in a capitalistic corporate hellscape sucking the life out of us and the planet)
But very occasionally you'll see an answer with a little bit of nuance, which is: Not only are we all incredibly broke, even if we were making the same relative wages that our parents were at our age, everything is a magnitude more expensive and simultaneously worse.
hate it when people call ada lovelace the first female programmer, when in reality she was the first programmer ever. she wrote programs for a machine before it was ever constructed
there is nothing a corporation hates more than having employees, but a close second is having to provide a good or service in order to make money. these two reasons concisely explain is why the ai bubble formed in the first place.
Admitting that her lack of a Facebook account often leaves her feeling disconnected, local woman Laura Starling confirmed Wednesday that she’s entirely out of touch with her friends’ prejudices. “I never got around to joining Facebook, so I’m basically in the dark about what kind of narrow-minded opinions my old classmates and former coworkers have these days,” said Starling, who added that, because she never logs into the popular social media site, it has grown increasingly difficult in recent years to keep up with her longtime acquaintances’ heated knee-jerk responses to events in the world that reveal their intolerant viewpoints and irrational biases.
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